You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
AL-GHAZALIDo not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms.
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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
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Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms.
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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.
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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
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